Medium – Book About the Book – Cecily Neville is the wife of Richard Duke of York, during the time just before the Wars of the Roses. The book starts off with her as a young wife of 16, watching the burning of Joan of Arc, and then follows through her life with Richard, theContinue reading “2021 Book #75 – Cecily”
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2021 Book #69 – The Queen’s Fool
Medium – Book About the Book – Cat Sparrow lives in a nunnery as an orphan, with her big sister Meg. One day, Meg is taken away by a man on a big black horse, and Cat decides that she will go after her. Armed with her bird flute, a beautiful singing voice and aContinue reading “2021 Book #69 – The Queen’s Fool”
2021 Book #56 – Shadowplay
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In the Lyceum Theatre, three extraordinary people begin their working lives together – Henry Irving, the key leading man and theatre impresario; Ellen Terry, the most desired actress of her generation; and Bram Stoker, the unremarkable theatre manager and eventual writer of ‘Dracula’. The story follows Bram throughContinue reading “2021 Book #56 – Shadowplay”
2021 Book #48 – Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
Medium – Book About the Book – Marion Lane is an Apprentice Investigator at Miss Brickett’s Investigations and Inquiries, a detective agency which is located in a huge underground complex located under the City of London. One night, a murder is committed inside the complex, meaning that one of Marion’s co-workers must be a murderer.Continue reading “2021 Book #48 – Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder”
2021 Book #47 – The Austen Girls
Medium – Book About the Book – The Austen Girls tells the stories of two of Jane Austen’s nieces – Fanny, the daughter of her rich brother, and Anna, the daughter of one of her poorer brothers. The two girls are thrown into the marriage market and must make their way through it, trying toContinue reading “2021 Book #47 – The Austen Girls”
2021 Book #21 – Romanov
Medium – Book About the Book – Anastasia Romanov, the Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia, is imprisoned with her family (her Papa, Mamma, older sisters and younger brother) by soldiers of the Bolshevik army, their every movement scrutinised, watched everyday. They are moved to Ekaterinburg in Siberia along with some soldiers including the dashing andContinue reading “2021 Book #21 – Romanov”
2021 Book #12 – A Gentleman in Moscow
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Count Alexander Rostov is a Russian Aristocrat living in Moscow in the 1920s. He is a resident at the Hotel Metropol, and one day is arrested by the Bolsheviks due to his rank, usually a death sentence. However, he is spared the firing squad because of a poemContinue reading “2021 Book #12 – A Gentleman in Moscow”
2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones
Medium – Book About the Book – Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are at Haworth Parsonage, busy with their ambitions to become famous, published authoresses. Their quiet life is one day interrupted by the discovery of a cache of bones at a local house. Hearing that they are the bones of a young child, theContinue reading “2021 Book #8 – The Diabolical Bones”
TBR Pile #18 – The Familiars
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married to the local Lord of the Manor, and is pregnant for the fourth time. All her previous pregnancies have ended in miscarriage or stillbirth, and Fleetwood is desperate to produce an heir for her husband. One day, she finds a letterContinue reading “TBR Pile #18 – The Familiars”
TBR Pile #15 – Dangerous Alliances
Medium – Book About the Book – Lady Victoria Aston is a headstrong girl living in the early 19th century and is a complete fanatic for the writings of her favourite author, Jane Austen. She is determined to find her own Mr Darcy/Mr Knightley/Colonel Brandon, but is in no hurry to do so. However, circumstancesContinue reading “TBR Pile #15 – Dangerous Alliances”
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